The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.